“Here’s the exact thing: [Rachel, Kurt and Finn] are seniors, so they’re graduating,” Brad said on the panel, which was modified by Michael Ausiello, Editor-in-Chief of HollywoodLife.com‘s sister site, TVLine. “[But] if you have Lea Michele under contract, you don’t say, ‘We’re gonna let you go.’ … It was never our plan or our intention to let them go. … They are not done with the show after this season.”